And DPRK. Oh and Libya. Also Iraq. And... ah shit, it's a long list.
CindyTheSkull
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2021 vote on handing isntreal an additional billion dollars for the iron dome.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez explains why voting 'present' on bill to fund Israel's Iron Dome moved her to tears
I would say that your answer is hidden in the way you phrased the question.
The idea that revenge is bad is indeed liberal idealist bullshit. What matters is, as usual, the material reality of whatever the circumstances are. Will revenge being taken in the specific circumstances you're talking about end up doing more material harm than good? Revenge is not an inherently bad thing and it can be an extremely good motivating force behind very good and necessary actions. It can also be detrimental and end up harming people even in completely unintended ways, including the ones who are trying to enact their vengeance for entirely justifiable reasons.
It all depends on the situation. But I think we can safely say that revenge as an idea being either good or bad is a liberal-style framing or misunderstanding.
Claims to have read books then proceeds to demonstrate in front of everyone that they have never read a book about the very thing they're talking about.
Even fucking wikipedia, that most extreme of pro-Russian & tankie propagandist sites, reveals how fucking unlearned and full of shit you are:
The Soviet government of the Russian Soviet Republic (RSFSR) decriminalised homosexuality in December 1917, following the October Revolution and the discarding of the Legal Code of Tsarist Russia.
The legalisation of homosexuality was confirmed in the RSFSR Penal Code of 1922, and following its redrafting in 1926. According to Dan Healey, archival material that became widely available following the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 "demonstrates a principled intent to decriminalize the act between consenting adults, expressed from the earliest efforts to write a socialist criminal code in 1918 to the eventual adoption of legislation in 1922."
You're the one who said:
socialism fundamentally requires centralized control, and I don't trust centralized control.
What did you mean when you said that? There is no way in which socialism "requires" anything like this that capitalism also doesn't require in terms of controlling the population. At least in socialism the population has control over the population rather than a small elite class (the bourgeoisie aka capitalist class aka owning class) as in capitalism. If you are talking about a planned economy, then again, capitalism does this too and you need look no further than fucking amazon as an example. The economy is just planned around gaining more capital for a small class instead of actually serving the needs of people as in socialism.
Finally,
I don't trust society not to deliberately appoint a tyrannical megalomaniac: I've seen them do it entirely too often.
No, you haven't. You've been told that happened as a means of propaganda to make sure you and everyone like you (people not part of the owning class) think exactly what you do now think "ooooooh noes scary socialism always turns ebil dictatortotship!" Show us what socialist societies (AES) "appointed a tyrannical megalomaniac" and we'll show you a load a bullshit that has been force-fed to the people of a capitalist society ruled by the real tyrannical megalomaniacs: the capitalist class.
Wait, really? I must be missing something here. Even though it's surprising to me, I can believe that Canada is actually a bit worse off than the US with respect to housing prices. But not only is this a drastic difference (hundreds of percent), this graph implies that from 1989 to 2005 and again from 2008 until covid, the US had a higher real disposable income than the real housing prices and that disposable income vs housing prices in the US have been pretty much in parity the whole time. Is it something like the wealthiest percentiles are skewing the data for the US to make it appear like people in general can afford homes? (GDP shows the economy is great actually!) If that's the case, why isn't the same true of the Canadian data set?
I don't think so. To me it reads very clearly that she thinks the "trans healthcare" part of the Nazi book-burning is what is preposterous. Pretty sure she's one of those transphobes that believes trans people are some kind of modern woke plot that hadn't yet been invented back in the 1930s. Obviously she would also deny upholding Nazi ideology, but she wouldn't use that kind of terminology. What she is calling a "fever dream" is referring to the historical fact of Nazis specifically burning research on trans healthcare, I'd bet my meager life savings on it.
ok, thanks for the info. I don't know a lot about how this kind of thing works (clearly), I just try to use and support FOSS and "piracy" whenever possible.
Just to add on to what you said, but tying it with the bit from OP you quoted.... I don't think that was ignorance or them thinking they were actually helping fight against oppression. It was purely a performance to try to co-opt the liberation movement and remove its teeth in order to render it harmless. They weren't being good-intentioned but stupid, they weren't thinking they were "actively helping fight oppression" just in an ineffective way, rather they were using that pretense as a tactic to fight for oppression in a way that benefits them. And it was effective.
Reverse Hanlon's razor.
Oh really? This ban won't effect people who use (for example) F-Droid to get the app?? That's great to hear tbh. Hopefully this stupid ass decision will have the effect of turning more people on to FOSS stuff more than it will actually prevent people from using TikTok.
Eh, depends. Some of us enjoy dunking on libs and chuds out in the wild, especially when there's a comrade or three around to back us up. I've often thought how great it would be if we had a brigade comm, especially back when federation was new and we got constantly accused of it anyway.
Yeah, there's no denying the melanin deficiency here, but I think most of us are able and willing to recognize the privilege we have that comes along with being bleach demons. Speaking for myself at least, and from what I've seen it's true of much of the community around here, we are learning to stfu and listen when a person of color tells us we're wrong, misunderstand something, or are just being dumbass crackers. So feel free to put us in our place when that happens. I'd like to think that most of the community here will appreciate it rather than immediately get defensive and chauvinistic like most other chromatically bland spaces. Anyway, welcome!